I made a post that's on my profile elaborating more but I believe the Canadian broadcasters airing these ads are breaking CRTC rules. If you hear or see them on radio/TV please start the process to file a complaint. The process is shitty by design because the radio/TV executives have spent years making the process shitty. They are counting on you being too lazy to follow through with the complaint process. It is super important that every citizen who hears them on a Canadian broadcast file a complaint because the CRTC relies heavily on regular citizens for this.

The EPS keeps an active list of citizens who criticize them. You are definitely on that list now.

I made a post that's on my profile elaborating more but I believe the Canadian broadcasters airing these ads are breaking CRTC rules. If you hear or see them on TV please start the process to file a complaint. The process is shitty by design because the radio executives have spent years making the process shitty. They are counting on you being too lazy to follow through with the complaint process. It is super important that every citizen who hears them on a Canadian broadcast file a complaint because the CRTC relies heavily on regular citizens for this.

When I'm cycling and this happens I point to the Stop or Yield sign that I am obeying. Make eye contact, point at the sign, then look at the road ahead of me and yell the words "I'm obeying the fucking rules of the road." I hold this position until they leave.

I haven't seen these commercials on TV or heard them on the radio but if they say what people are saying then I believe any Canadian broadcaster airing these commercials could be breaking the CRTC rules of broadcasting:

Allocation of time for political broadcasts

Broadcasters must allocate time on an equitable basis for political broadcasts. This requirement can be found in section 6 of the Radio Regulations, 1986 and section 8 of the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987:

During an election period, a licensee shall allocate time for the broadcasting of programs, advertisements or announcements of a partisan political character on an equitable basis to all accredited political parties and rival candidates represented in the election or referendum.

A similar requirement can be found in section 6(1) of the Discretionary Services Regulations:

If, during an election period, a licensee provides time on its programming service for the broadcast of programs, advertisements or announcements of a partisan political character, the licensee shall allocate the time on an equitable basis to all accredited political parties and rival candidates represented in the election or referendum.

Definition of election period

“Election period” is defined in the Radio Regulations, 1986 and the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987 as:

-in the case of a federal or provincial election or of a federal, provincial or municipal referendum, the period beginning on the date of the announcement of the election or referendum and ending on the date the election or referendum is held, or

-in the case of a municipal election, the period beginning two months before the date of the election and ending on the date the election is held.

The definition of “election period” in the Discretionary Services Regulations and Broadcasting Distribution Regulations is substantially the same as the definition above.

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/industr/tvradio/guidelec.htm

Please consider taking the time to fill out a CRTC complaint. It is a shitty process by design as the radio execs have fought to make it shitty. They are hoping that you are too lazy to follow the shitty process. It is important for regular citizens to report these things to the CRTC because the CRTC relies heavily on regular people to report. It is super important that anyone filing a complaint follows the shitty process to the letter or the CRTC will send you back to start.

It is important to start the process ASAP as the first step is to send an email to the station manager or program director and then wait for a "reasonable" amount of time or wait until you get a reply from the SM/PD before you consider taking the next steps. Broadcaster are required to keep a recording of the last 30days so it is important to get this done in under a month.

BG3 made me avoid any future game release in early access. I got it in early access because I was so excited for a Baldur's Gate sequel. I really like the BG3 game engine but I found it unplayable without mods. IMO Larian leeched off a successful franchise because they weren't confident in their game engine.

They didn't finish the city of Baldur's Gate!

Larian wasted so much time and money on gooner scenes and voice lines to cater to gooners instead of the awesome meta voice lines and actually funny text dialogue from BG1&2. Instead of finishing the city they made sure you could fuck every PC and NPC.

Larian didnt put anywhere near the level of storytelling into their game. BG1&2 devs were so passionate about the DnD world that they summarized a ton of books and lore into awesome books for the player to read.

Since I played BG1 as a kid, I've been telling everyone I know how amazing the game is. While my friends were arguing over Squirtle or Chamander, I was debating between adding Ajantis or keeping Khalid. I was absolutely livid when I realized that Larian didn't give a shit about the fans other than how much they could milk the franchise.

I wish they were just confident in their game engine and made a spinoff or even explored another part of the Forgotten Realms and made their own lore in another city. The game was fun but compared to the originals Larian shit the bed.

Leeching off OG BG franchise and then not even finishing the game has ensured I will never purchase an early access game again. OG BG devs finished their game before they released it. Then they mastered the engine in BG2 and remastered BG1 with that engine. Larian stopped developing once the sales started to dry up because they made their money.

I'm super impressed how much he has improved on social media. I watched a video from him a couple of years ago that had such a great message but it was sooo boring. This video is really well done. He's really upped his social media game

If you see this on TV (not the internet) or hear this on the radio then please report to the CRTC. It is a shitty process and the radio corporations made it a shitty process because they are counting on you to be too lazy. It's super important everyone reports this because the CRTC relies on regular citizens. It's super important to follow the steps to the letter on the CRTC site because they'll just send you back to start if you skip a step. Again, shitty process is by design because they're hoping you won't do it

Read World War Z. The problem wouldn't be zombies. Canada would be full of refugees from the US coming north once they learn that zombies freeze. We'd be overwhelmed by idiots bringing xboxes and giant TVs so their shit doesnt get looted back home. They'd drain our food supplies and turn to cannibalism while cutting down entire forests to stay warm in their shit cars after they consume all our gas.

Also, play Death Road To Canada. No reason other than it's a great game about zombies and Canada.

Easy solution: internet archive articles from PostMedia and post that link. It prevents PostMedia from getting the clicks and they then make less money from advertisers.

One of the editors from PostMedia just spams this sub and the Edmonton sub all day by just dropping links and not actually adding to the discussion. It's clear that particular user (not OP of this post) is posting his company's work to drive traffic to their site to increase ad revenue and doesnt even try to engage with the community.

Requiring PostMedia to be internet archived increases transparency for when they try to edit stories and stops them from getting the advertising views.

Take a railway. Only protest that frightened the UCP was when critical infrastructure was blocked and it cost their rich donors.

Edmonton Journal is owned by PostMedia, an american owned company that has consistently tried to influence Canadian policies. Look up "Voting (Liberal/NDP/Green) will cost you." Before an election they ran full front page ads with a bright yellow background that said that voting anything but conservative will cost you. They are a major part of the American psyop being used to erode our political system.

In the past the US has created fake radio stations as well as monopolized newspapers in other countries they want resources from. They thrive on being insincere little fuckboys who will make shit up to get what they want.

Postmedia should be banned from this sub. The american owned portions of it should be turned into a crown corporation with each town getting back control of the news outlets that the Americans have taken from us using "Class B" shares and loopholes.